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Show JER GOES TO SrLAAU MEET . hasketball squad made 'ckeLond successful defense VS fountain AAU bas-ifn bas-ifn championship March 12 finals of a tourney played t f Gemmell Memorial ? The win gave Ecker their ?d successive AAU title, tonday morning of this week fwon their first round m lira?i nal AAU tourney at n"r by turning . back the vnix Marstons, Arizona's lone Stative, 64 to 49 in free-5 free-5 affair. On Tuesday Eck-eliminated Eck-eliminated from the 17 meet when they were ten by Phillips 47 - 23. , winning the intermountain , in the tilt here on March Ecker defeated Gemmell 57-The 57-The Salt Lake team pulled a-d a-d in the rough first quarter 'ain a M-6 lead. Gemmell lost I Carroll in the second quar-1 quar-1 when he was ejected on per-I per-I al fouls. Stew Pendleton, id Morris and Merlin Ahl- t steadily fed the ball through hoop for Ecker-he Ecker-he Junior tourney crown !' it to Capson-Bowman of Salt il e city, 43-36, victor over ' h Wolves in some of the fas-and fas-and more exciting play of the day program. The victors 113-12 in the first quarter, but i less than a minute remain-of remain-of the half, the Wolves pull-ahead pull-ahead 21-17. Capson-Bowman le it 21-all by the half and j then on moved steadily a-i a-i with tight defensive play. Wolves tied at 28-28 and 30- il-star squads selected for tourney were announced by :.als as follows: :niors John Mazuran and Carroll of Gemmell; May-I May-I Bailey of Snow; Deb Smith Sessional Pharmacy and lin Ahlquist of Ecker. dors Johnny Paulos of le; Al Jones of Capson-man; Capson-man; Brown of Utah Wolves; n of Rotary YMCA; Jack m of Gemmell Juniors.,,, d Hulbert of Capson-Bow-received the sportsmanship rd and Robert Detmers of iraell club the most valuable er award. e Christensen, chairman of AAU basketball committee, V in charge of the successful aey. A record crowd attend-i attend-i rare than 1500 fans being ent for the finals. J 'Uard Nichols, chairman of ' Gemmell club athletic com-ee, com-ee, and Al J. Ablett, club ager, made introductory rets re-ts when awards were made r :uial night. Harold MacNiel, , vice president of the Interim Inter-im AAU, presented a-Is. |